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Mission to China: Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit Encounter with the East / Mary Laven

Review Date: 
1 Oct 2011

Mary Laven has established herself as a competent historian, writing on a variety of aspects centred on the Venetian Renaissance. The present book is the first contribution to take her out of Europe, at least in geographical terms.

Against the Cold War. The History and Political Traditions of Pro-Sovietism in the British Labour Party, 1945–89 / Darren Lilleker

Review Date: 
1 Jul 2005

Histories of the Cold War have often, for obvious reasons, concentrated on the grand struggle between 'East and West', 'Communism and Capitalism', the 'USSR and the United States'.

Common Destiny Dictatorship, Foreign Policy, and War in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany / MacGregor Knox

Review Date: 
30 Sep 2001

I came to review this book with a great deal of anticipation. MacGregor Knox has been working for a long time on a comparative analysis of the fascist dictatorships, and is one of a line of US or US-trained historians who have breathed life into the recent study of contemporary European history by using a comparative approach.

Fascism and the Right in Europe, 1919-1945 / Martin Blinkhorn

Review Date: 
1 Oct 2001

Despite spurious claims being made in some quarters about 'a new consensus',(1) the history of fascism remains a bitterly contested area, even if, notwithstanding the Irving Trial, most contests occur in the seminar room rather than the courtroom.

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